Amy Hicks tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4 2007-03-27T23:51:53Z Movable Type 3.34 Suspended 1, 2005 tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.27 2007-03-14T21:46:42Z 2007-03-27T23:51:53Z digital video, color, sound trt: 6:14 minutes... digital video, color, sound trt: 6:14 minutes




]]> Suspended 2, 2005 tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.28 2007-03-13T21:51:22Z 2007-03-27T23:52:31Z 16mm to digital video transfer, color, sound trt: 4:10 minutes... 16mm to digital video transfer, color, sound trt: 4:10 minutes Suspended Series is a four-piece rumination on commuting, perception, and propulsion. Each track transforms an ordinary drive over a bridge into rhythmic, hypnotic experiences that conjure up scientific diagrams, images of flight, the future, and the cosmos. Playing like an old 45 record, these analog / digital combinations skip and crackle through time slipping between present and future, image and imagination, obfuscation and revelation. In Suspended I drive back and forth repeatedly across four bay area bridges. The mundane drive evokes a meditative and hallucinatory state. By filming this process I attempt to capture these conditions. I work the audio and textured surfaces in layers to evoke a physical manifestation of the visions stemming from repetition. While giving weight to these ethereal conditions I confront the actual dullness of traffic—car, asphalt, stop and go bumper to bumper. The architecture of each bridge determines the camera angle and the characteristics of the vision: #1—San Mateo Bridge—sky, #2—San Francisco Bay Bridge—flight, #3—Dumbarton Bridge—horizon and velocity, and #4—Golden Gate Bridge—suspension. The bridges traversed reflect an ambiguous zone, they are the spaces between two pieces of land, the industrial connectors allowing commuters access from one space to another. As I cross each wondrous engineering feat I ask: What does it mean to sit still, my body barely moving within the armor of the automobile, while the car propels forward over 55 mph? What visions do I see when I watch the landscape hurtle past the windows of my car? Will we eventually travel via hovercraft? What impact does velocity have on my internal organs? Who is driving next to me? Will I ever drive fast enough to experience a time shift? When cars are obsolete, could this bridge be repurposed as a roller coaster? I am fascinated by the intersection of the real and the imagined in everyday actions. I am interested in deciphering and giving form to that murky sphere between desire and realization of desire, the imagined and the manifestation of the imagination, and common living space versus televised and/or cinematic space. In that murky realm there dwells an ambiguous zone called the manufacture of fantasy. In this zone there is a constructive and destructive act. Whether the creative act is undertaken by artists, filmmakers, the Hollywood machine, or commercial advertisers something is altered, something is manipulated. How does the manufacture of fantasy and imagination distort and influence perception?]]> tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.36 2007-03-13T01:13:17Z 2007-03-13T02:14:15Z here_at_amyhicks dot org 415-430-8466... here_at_amyhicks dot org 415-430-8466]]> March 07 tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.31 2007-03-12T23:34:01Z 2007-03-27T21:43:54Z Amy Hicks works with video, film, and still photography to translate contemporary culture into absurd, humorous, or fantastical experiences. Treading a fine line amid cinema, science fiction, fantasy, and structural video art, her combination analog-digital productions are explorations of imagination... Amy Hicks works with video, film, and still photography to translate contemporary culture into absurd, humorous, or fantastical experiences. Treading a fine line amid cinema, science fiction, fantasy, and structural video art, her combination analog-digital productions are explorations of imagination and the commonplace. Recent projects use television, commercials, mass-produced commodities, and transportation as subjects to explore present-day technologies, their impact on daily life, and how consistent use of such tools alters perceptions of past and future human behavior. Her award-winning films and videos have appeared internationally at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, Henry Art Museum, New Langton Arts, the Big Muddy Film Festival, Ladyfest Bay Area, Artists’ Television Access, Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video, Women in the Director’s Chair, diRosa Preserve: Art and Nature, San Francisco Art Commission, an Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco International Film Festival, and outhern Exposure among others. She is a Film Arts Foundation Robin Eickman Fiction Shorts recipient and was awarded a Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship. She received her MFA from Stanford University in 2005 and is affiliated with the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. Suspended 3, 2006 tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.29 2007-03-12T22:13:59Z 2007-03-27T23:53:28Z 16mm to digital video, color, sound Trt: 8:10 min.... 16mm to digital video, color, sound Trt: 8:10 min. Suspended 4, 2006 tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.30 2007-03-10T22:16:11Z 2007-03-27T23:54:42Z 16mm to digital video, color, sound Trt: 3:05 min.... 16mm to digital video, color, sound Trt: 3:05 min. Winter Sale & Endless Shrimp tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.32 2007-03-09T23:39:47Z 2007-03-27T23:55:33Z digital video, color, silent (in progress)... digital video, color, silent (in progress) Hatching Beauty, 2001 tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.34 2007-03-07T23:49:17Z 2007-03-13T00:52:31Z 16mm to digital video, color, sound trt: 10:00 minutes... 16mm to digital video, color, sound trt: 10:00 minutes A Scientific Method for Hiring, 2003 tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.35 2007-03-06T23:56:48Z 2007-03-13T00:58:24Z 16mm to digital video, color, sound trt: 3:00... 16mm to digital video, color, sound trt: 3:00 Last Machine Model 1: Searching Arbitrary Mappings on a Long Sensory Spectrum tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.33 2005-03-08T23:43:36Z 2007-03-27T21:36:35Z 16mm film, sprockets, strobe lights, reels interactive installation... 16mm film, sprockets, strobe lights, reels interactive installation Still Film: Méliés’ Moon, 2004 tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2004:/amyhicks//4.41 2003-03-27T21:49:49Z 2007-03-27T23:49:53Z 16mm to digital video, color, silent Beta version trt: 2:30 minutes (in progress)... Amy amyhicks.org 16mm to digital video, color, silent Beta version trt: 2:30 minutes (in progress) Simple Movements Undone: Paper Pusher tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.40 2003-03-27T21:45:50Z 2007-03-27T21:49:17Z Digital video to 16mm projection Rolodex installation (in progress)... Amy amyhicks.org Digital video to 16mm projection Rolodex installation (in progress) Expanded Camera, 1994 tag:www.collectivefoundation.org,2007:/amyhicks//4.42 2001-03-27T23:56:28Z 2007-03-28T00:01:27Z (for Diderot and the Last Luminare: Waiting for the Enlightenment with Erika Suderburg) 35mm camera parts, hardware, wood... Diderot and the Last Luminare: Waiting for the Enlightenment with Erika Suderburg) 35mm camera parts, hardware, wood ]]>